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''to | The Doctor is abducted by the Time Lords into a space station above the gas giant Etarho, where a court will be called in session. The Doctor initially refuses to take part in the proceedings, but in finding out that the defendant is the Valeyard, he stays to defend the Valeyard due to his curiosity. The Doctor is at first determined to find the Valeyard guilty, but the situation becomes even more complex as history is rewritten and information becomes classified as the court session goes on. After counseling the defendant, the Doctor agrees to defend the Valeyard due to the Valeyard" being clever". | ||
The crime that the Valeyard is accused of, trivial hacking on to the Matrix, bewilders the Doctor. The Valeyard supposedly reveals that he was an orphan left in a Shadow House that has a biodata the same as the Doctor's. Apparently, after meeting a Time Lord whose regeneration was stuck in a paradox, the Valeyard put himself in the study of regeneration. He voices the heresy that Rassilon himself imposed the fatality in the thirteenth regeneration to keep the Time Lords in check. The Valeyard says that he was the result of illegal experiments made by the Thirteenth Doctor on the planet. Evidence of the experiments, the Doctor's Black Scrolls, were apparently in a container still on the planet. The planet is translocated by the Time Lords in order to erase the evidence presented. After some commotion, the Valeyard is terminated in front of the court. | |||
The Doctor tracks the planet and finds the supposed Thirteenth, mad regeneration of himself, in a shack. The Inquisitor and the guard followed the Doctor to the planet, and the Thirteenth mad regeneration jumps into the mud as the forces close in. The Inquisitor begs the Doctor to open the container, as only his bio data could open it, and reveals that the Valeyard refused to open it. The Doctor deduces that this was why the Valeyard was put on trial because he refused to reveal the secret of immortality in those scrolls. He then deduces that the container did not actually contain the scrolls, but a bomb set as a trap by the Valeyard. The Valeyard emerges from the mud, revealing that the Matrix door was there. The Valeyard spoke of revenge and then flees after activating the bomb. The guard flees, and the Doctor and the Inquisitor escape aboard his TARDIS. | |||
The Doctor suggests to the Inquisitor that someone within the Time Lord council was working with the Valeyard, and promptly leaves. | |||
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Revision as of 02:32, 2 January 2014
Trial of the Valeyard was Big Finish Productions' subscriber-free release for 2013.
Publisher's summary
There is some evil in all of us – even the Doctor. Transported aboard the Time Lords' orbiting courtroom, the Doctor once again encounters the Valeyard, an amalgamation of the darker sides of his nature. This time, however, the Doctor isn't in the dock. This time, the Valeyard is the defendant, accused of a crime so terrible that the presiding Inquisitor is forbidden to reveal it even to the court, nor even to his counsel for the defence… the Doctor.
If the Valeyard is found guilty, he'll be executed. Execute the Valeyard, and the secret of his origins dies with him. A secret that the Doctor is desperate to know… and which the Time Lords will stop at nothing to protect.
Plot
The Doctor is abducted by the Time Lords into a space station above the gas giant Etarho, where a court will be called in session. The Doctor initially refuses to take part in the proceedings, but in finding out that the defendant is the Valeyard, he stays to defend the Valeyard due to his curiosity. The Doctor is at first determined to find the Valeyard guilty, but the situation becomes even more complex as history is rewritten and information becomes classified as the court session goes on. After counseling the defendant, the Doctor agrees to defend the Valeyard due to the Valeyard" being clever".
The crime that the Valeyard is accused of, trivial hacking on to the Matrix, bewilders the Doctor. The Valeyard supposedly reveals that he was an orphan left in a Shadow House that has a biodata the same as the Doctor's. Apparently, after meeting a Time Lord whose regeneration was stuck in a paradox, the Valeyard put himself in the study of regeneration. He voices the heresy that Rassilon himself imposed the fatality in the thirteenth regeneration to keep the Time Lords in check. The Valeyard says that he was the result of illegal experiments made by the Thirteenth Doctor on the planet. Evidence of the experiments, the Doctor's Black Scrolls, were apparently in a container still on the planet. The planet is translocated by the Time Lords in order to erase the evidence presented. After some commotion, the Valeyard is terminated in front of the court.
The Doctor tracks the planet and finds the supposed Thirteenth, mad regeneration of himself, in a shack. The Inquisitor and the guard followed the Doctor to the planet, and the Thirteenth mad regeneration jumps into the mud as the forces close in. The Inquisitor begs the Doctor to open the container, as only his bio data could open it, and reveals that the Valeyard refused to open it. The Doctor deduces that this was why the Valeyard was put on trial because he refused to reveal the secret of immortality in those scrolls. He then deduces that the container did not actually contain the scrolls, but a bomb set as a trap by the Valeyard. The Valeyard emerges from the mud, revealing that the Matrix door was there. The Valeyard spoke of revenge and then flees after activating the bomb. The guard flees, and the Doctor and the Inquisitor escape aboard his TARDIS.
The Doctor suggests to the Inquisitor that someone within the Time Lord council was working with the Valeyard, and promptly leaves.
Cast
References
- Etarho is a gas giant around which orbits a single satellite.
- Shadow Houses are rumoured organisations on Gallifrey where Time Lords who have experienced failed regenerations are sent.
- The Doctor's Black Scrolls supposedly detail how a Time Lord can breach the twelve-regeneration limit imposed by Rassilon.
- The Doctor mentions the seventeen suns of Kasterborous.
- While trying to figure out who is on trial, the Doctor lists a few Time Lords. The list consists of the Master, the Rani, the Monk, and Morbius.
Notes
- This story was released free to Big Finish subscribers whose subscriptions included AUDIO: Afterlife.
- This story was recorded on 15 and 20 May 2013
- This story will be released to the public in December 2014.
Continuity
- The Valeyard claims that the final incarnation of the Doctor had a picture of Stockbridge on the wall of his lab. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Horror)
- The Doctor recognises the space station from his trial. (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord)
- The Doctor mentions how the Master was able to survive past his final incarnation. (TV: Logopolis)
External links
- Official Trial of the Valeyard page at bigfinish.com
